VELIO. . Ephèfians,Chap.Ì. 109 whom itis detayned iti them or their progenitors ; but we haveMewed fufficiently,that it is firft fent amongft any freely, andif it be withheld from any,it muff be for their owne deferrs,or fome who have bin before them, parents to them : not for their owne deferts ; for manyof the hea- then were not fohard heartedand impenitent as the Jew ; and for their parents fault, ir could not be with-held, unleffe we wouldmake particu- lar parents to ftand for themfclvesand their children ; whereas tobe a Type of Chrift, a publique perfon ftanding for him and his, doth a- gree to vidam, as a thing appropriated tohim, Rom.;:Yea,fome thinke that the inward teaching which doth fo teach that it changeth the miede,that this teaching, I fay, is given to fuch whom God doth fee as fir toworkewith ir, andufe to this purpofe ; as aCaptaine fetteth a man on a horfe whom he Both fee will manage him well : But this doth prefuppofe a connaturall correfpondency in corrupt nature, to the fa- pernaturall grace;of God, and apower in nature to ufe Grace aright, whichhash long fincebeene condemned as aPelagian errour,from thefe grounds,that we cannot doe any thing which profiteth to falvation, out ofChriff, that we arenot fit to thinke agood thought. Secondly; Let us acknowledge Gods free grace, that we havethefe Yfe thingsopened and revealed tous, weof meane parts for underftanding, incomparifon of other, we who have beene often more vile and vici- oufly difpofed then others : Let us acknowledge that he bath opened thefe things, and hid them from other, even becaufe it fo pleafed him. Finally, let us labour towalkeworthy thefe ordinances, to be fruitfull in them, left he fay tous asto Capernaum, woe be to thee; thenwert lif. fedto Heaven, tut I. will'throw thee downeto hell. Now followeth the tenth verse, which is fomewhat difficult, and Vs toil too ergo, we muff dwell a little on the explanationof it. Firft, we will confider oftheconnexion it hath with the former, then ofthe meaning and parts ofit,. and fo come to the inffruélions which it affordeth : For thedependance of it on that whichgoeth before, it may feem brought in either as anexplication ofthole words in theverle before, the mystery ofhis Wif, oras aneffect intended by force thing which is in the former vprfe reported. The firft fenfe is tobe taken upafter this fort; Godbath 6pened to us themysery ofhis will,out ofhisgraciosospleafare;Where I mean nothing by the myfferyofhiswil,but that he meant in fulnelfe oftime to gather toa head inChrift,with thofe thingsalreadyin heaven, all things incart h,evenanuniverfal Church,throughthefaceofthe earth: this can- not,as Ì think,be anexpofitionofthole formerwords;For to faynothing that the Gloffe is harder then the Text ; words which are adjoyned by . way ofconftrue%ion, are not commonly fo far removed from them they confrue, asyou may fee in the 7.& r 3.ver. ofthis Ch.and all abroad. Again, the Apoftleby other equivalent terms in the a3.verfe dothopen what he meaneth by themyfleryofGods will,vie. noother thing then the word oftruth,andGofpel offalvation. Thirdly, that myserymade known,didwork in them all wifdome &underftanding,made themwife in good full meafure to falvation; but theknowledge ofthis, that God L would
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